I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I wrote a book, ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023).
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Makes me think about Edmund Lear’s ‘radical hope’ - an optimism ‘directed towards a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is’.
Or what historian Stephanie Coontz was saying here: we don’t yet know the heterosexuality we might want.
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Jay Owens
‘One possibility is we accept that nothing we see online is genuine and social media is just a worse version of TV.
The other more interesting possibility is that people realize the internet is infinitely big and you can always just make a new version of it.’
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Fog is alive.
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a713...
You do have to admire @alphaville.ft.com
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Against Taylor’s choice-feminism, @sarahjones.bsky.social writes:
‘We make choices, but we do so within certain constraints. The point is to change the constraints and the politics and the rhetoric until it is easier to love, to want, and to live.’
Jay Owens
The journalist living rough on the porch of Britain’s most expensive house.
A remarkable profile by @samwollaston.bsky.social (the contrast nearly too much on the nose, but it’s true, so there.)
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Dan @trillingual.bsky.social got interviewed by the New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 - a true lifetime achievement!!
On how anti-immigration politics went mainstream:
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
‘We can only love in the world as it is, not the world as it could be.’
@sarahjones.bsky.social responds to Magdalene J. Taylor’s hetero-optimism.
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‘I received a text message from my editor:
“Um, is it unethical to ask you to get an AI bf?? You can prob say no.”’
New Lauren Oyler
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